The Root Source of Anxiety.

If your teenage son or daughter said, “I’m not going to worry about
that chemistry test tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Today
has enough worries”, what would you say in reply? Something like, “put
down that face book and pick up the chemistry book, or I’ll give you
something to worry about!”?

If you knew they were being cute with the Scripture you could
quote one yourself, what St. Paul said to those Corinthians who were
making the rounds of their fellow Christians saying “The end is near!
Christ is soon to appear! Oh, and by the way, I haven’t had lunch yet.”

Paul said, “If anyone would not work, neither should that one eat.”

Christ was not advocating a life of idle dependency when He said,
“don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or drink or wear.” No,
he was advocating trust in God as an antidote to anxiety. We need to
eat and drink, God knows we need all those things, but unless we seek
first the Kingdom of God we will seek first and only the kingdom of
ourselves. We will become, each in our own little way, like those
tiresome dictators, obsessed with themselves, victims of their own
grandiosity and corruption.

One of the local Libyans demonstrating downtown Friday said that
Qadhafi has now declared himself the enemy of all Libyans. He summed up
Qadhafi’s attitude this way: “He has said it’s me or nobody lives.
That’s quite a sign of his mental state.”

Well, yes, Qadhafi has been in a mental state for some time, but he
has simply taken to an extreme the attitude any one of us can have if we
don’t seek first the Kingdom of God; the attitude that regards others
not as persons of equal dignity but only as instruments to serve our own
desires, or as obstructions to be overcome. But when we seek first the
kingdom of ourselves, anxiety is the constant attendant at our throne.
Repression makes us more secure? No, it only embitters our enemies.
No one can be trusted. Anyone may be the assassin.

Qadhafi started life in humble circumstances. There may have
been a time when he wanted to lift up his people. Now he’s gunning them
down. What happened? How did he lose his perspective, his balance?
He forgot what he is – a mere man, gifted in certain ways but tripping
quickly across the stage of history, influential but mortal, soon to
answer to his Creator. He failed to seek first the Kingdome of God so
he worshipped himself instead.

How to keep your balance? A walk through a cemetery does it for
me. Or, in bad weather, I let my fingers do the walking through the
obituaries. There were some long ones the other day. One I read, about
a long and successful life, detailing the hard work and accomplishments
from high school on, the sports excelled in, the degrees earned, the
awards and honors, the professional services much respected and sought
after, the prosperous business, the wife and children and grandchildren,
the kind of life that anyone would envy. Now over. Gone the way of
all flesh. And one little part of me thinks – how sad. He had it all,
but so what? Now he’s dead, it’s over. And all that success so much
useless vanity. But that’s the little part of me that still must
worship at the altar of the word, the part of me that wants to be on the
throne. The better part of me thinks – how blessed that man was, what
an opportunity he had to glorify God. What a true success if he was
grateful for his blessings, sought first the Kingdom of God, kept it all
in perspective, kept his balance, and left this world looking forward
to the next. And since he was active in Bible study and the Men’s Club
at his church it seems likely that he did.

This life is not a useless vanity because it is temporary. We
may be dust and ashes, our lives may be brief, but they have great value
and beauty because of the divine life that already touches us and
invites us forward when we remember to seek first the Kingdom of God.

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of man.” wrote Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush in
the year of our Lord 1800. The context
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itself throughout the USA. We must wonder what he might say
about our current government's forced imposition of strict secularism – i.e.,
anti-theism – throughout the USA. I submit that legally enforced secularism of society, like theocracy, like Marxism,
and like Islam, is, precisely, a form of tyranny over the mind of man.Nothing good can come from the religious cleansing of Judaeo-Christian society. Government imposed secularism is just another form of theocracy.